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PlantcB EnropecB (1890) shows a copious synonymy for the plant, 

 and a selection of names which take precedence of Hudsonli. 

 According to Kichter, the oldest name for the species, preceding 

 Goodenough's hy nine years, is C. data Allioni, Fl. Pedemont. ii. 272 

 (1785) ; and, unless Allioni's specimens should show reason to the 

 contrary, the bibliography cited by Allioni and Goodenough makes 

 it clear that this must be retained. Another change is in C. 

 depauperata, a name cited by Mr. Jackson (and generally) as pub- 

 lished by Goodenough in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 181 (1794). But 

 this had been published at least twice previously to this date — 

 first by Curtis (name only) in his Catalu(/iie of Plants cultivated in 

 the London Botanic Garden (1783, p. 92, no. 228), and then by 

 Stokes in With. Arr. ed. 2, ii. 1049 (1787). Mr. Bennett substitutes 

 for this C. ventricosa Cart. (Fl. Lend. fasc. vi. t. 68). This no doubt 

 takes precedence of Goodenough's name, for Goodenough cites it 

 as a synonym ; but we are doubtful whether it can supplant 

 G. depauperata Curt. Cat. (1783). Mr. W. A. Clarke has shown* 

 that the date of G. ventricosa is doubtful, but in the description 

 accompanying the plate Curtis says: — "The late Kev. Mr. Light- 

 foot, who had seen it growing with me, was pleased to call it G. 

 depauperata , from the paucity of its flowers, a name in ivhich we some- 

 time acquiesced; but, on maturer consideration, we think the name 

 we have now given it more expressive of its principal character." 

 This seems to us to imply that this description is later than the 

 Gatalofjne, and that the plant should be called G. depauperata Curt. 

 Cat. 92 (1783). The statement that Lightfoot suggested the 

 name does not appear in the Catalogue, and cannot, we think, be 

 taken into consideration in citing the authority for the species. 

 Mr. Clarke writes to point out that Coronopus procumbens Gilib. Fl. 

 Lituan. ii. 52 (1781), antedates G. Ruellii All. Fl. Pedem. i. 256 

 (1785). 



Other alterations will attract observation, upon which space will 

 not allow us to dwell. It may safely be assumed that none have 

 been made without consideration, and few without sufficient reason. 



The new Catalogue contains forty-eight pages as against forty of 

 the eighth edition, and is excellently printed on good paper. Mr. 

 Hanbury deserves, and will no doubt receive, the thanks of British 

 botanists for having taken upon himself the financial and editorial 

 responsibility of this indispensable adjunct to the herbarium, and 

 invaluable companion of the field-botanist. 



The British Moss-Flora. By R. Braithwaite, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 

 Part xvi. April, 1895. London : published by the author 

 at 303, Clapham Koad. Price 6s. Pp. 221-268 ; tabb. 75-84. 



How tedious and prolonged an undertaking it is to monograph 

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* Journ. Bot. 1895, 113, 



